[SaraxMass]

Someone I know had a baby in November. The baby was with drawing. Since she came up posative, the hospital filed a 51A on the mother. Now, it has gone to court, and the judge said that if the baby needs no special equipement, then she is going to go home with her mother to her program, but the catch is that they have to get an emergency hearing before they let the baby go home. The infant is getting discharged from the hospital today, and since they haven't had their emergency hearing yet. So the baby is going to a foster home today. The catch in all of this, DSS told the mother of the infant, that they were still training the foster mother in infant care.
If anything happened to the infant daughter in the care of a foster parent, who clearly has no idea how to take care of a baby, could DSS be held responsible?

[LearningAsIGo]

If anything happened to the infant daughter in the care of a foster parent, who clearly has no idea how to take care of a baby, could DSS be held responsible?

Don't assume the foster parent doesn't know how to care for an infant. DSS "trains" people in infant care as sort of an extra precaution. It just determines that the foster parent meets their standards of care. That doesn't mean this person doesn't have their own children... for all you know, she could be a daycare worker or Pediatrician in her personal life. The DSS makes every foster parent go through their training.

The baby was with drawing.

Sorry, but what do you mean?

[ScottGem]

Training a foster mother in infant care and not having any idea on how to care for an infant are different things. How many birth parents have had any formal training in infant care?

But to answer your question, if DSS placed an infant with a foster parent and that parent proved incompetent, then DSS would have some liability. That's why I doubt if they would place the child with this foster mother if they didn't think her capable.